In The Kitchen With Dan

Hey, everybody, you're in the kitchen with Dan. I'm congre. I am always excited to be in the kitchen, but I'm especially excited when I'm in the kitchen with you guys. I am parched. Here's a reminder to hydrate. I woke up thirsty today. I didn't drink enough water last night. I just read an article about hydrating and one of the things they suggest is to get a big glass of water in first thing in the morning all night long, our bodies working away and we need to rehydrate right away in the morning.

I think golden heart also talks about dehydration. Check out some of their posts here. Junk food junkie good afternoon. It's great to see you. I am excited today to share with you one of my favorite salad dressing recipes and I thought I'd share it with you today. I posted this yesterday, I don't know, midday evening, maybe early evening, and on one of my social media accounts. And I woke up today and it has like 24,000 views on it. So. And it actually was a repost. I had posted it before, so it's getting trash again.

Everybody loves it so much I want to share it with my Cadre peeps. So that's what I'm going to do today. It's a greek town greek salad dressing recipe from a friend of mine whose family owns a restaurant in Greetone. And it is so delicious. It's so authentic. Hey, Alec, I hope you like greek dressing. And so I'm gonna, I'm gonna walk you guys through it. It's so easy. Most of the stuff you probably have at home already. And you know what's better for you than salad? A bunch of really good fresh veggies.

And greek salad is loaded with them. I've always liked greek salad because it's a little light on the lettuce and more veggies. A lot of salads in Europe have very little lettuce, most of its vegetables, and I've been a big fan of that. So the greek salad generally consists of feta, kalamata olives, really ripe tomatoes and beets, red onion, trying to think of cucumber and just very little lettuce. I believe it's romaine. Normally that's used in the greek salad. But I think the real authentic greek salads don't have much lettuce at all.

A lot of cucumber, kalamata olive, feta, tomato, red onion and the beets. I'm not a fan of beets, so I usually ask for none or scrape them off. But some of the greek dressings actually have beet juice in the dressing, which is what makes it look pink. If you ever are in a Coney island restaurant or a greek restaurant and you see a little pink tint to the dressing, it's the beets. All right, so you guys ready? So let's make it. All right. Years ago, there was a salad dressing you could buy in a dry packet.

And good seasons was the name. I'm not promoting good seasons, recommending it or anything. I'm just mentioning it because with that dressing came this bottle, and I have kept it for years and years and years. If you ever find one of these in thrift store or garage sale, grab it. That's great. Cruet is what they call it, but it's really, really cool because it has, when, when you use the packet, it has the lines on it. For the oil, it's the vinegar, the water, and the oil. So you pour the vinegar in and then the next line, water, and then oil to the next line.

And then you'd cover it and. And shake it up. Yes, olives are a great source of really good fat. So. Yes, you're right, Mister Junkie. Okay, so let's get to it. So the first thing you start with. Oh, I wanted to talk to you, too, about this thing. I came across this, and it's just one of these really interesting space saving things that I, that I've been recommending for people that have really limited space that, you know, don't want to store the cups and the measuring spoons and all that stuff.

Check these out. I got this at the big a. But, you know, do some research and see if you can find a measuring cube and see if it works for you. You can measure. What is that? That's a cup. Third cup, quarter cup, half cup. And then they've got the teaspoon. Half teaspoon, quarter teaspoon. That's pretty sweet. And they have marks for milliliters, too. All right, back to the dressing. So we're not going to use this to measure like the lines are, but we're just going to use it to store the dressing in to mix it up.

So first we need a half a cup of red wine vinegar. And pour that right on here. Squirt v. Squirt. Squirt so red. Wake you up. More water. Hydrate. Alec knows about hydrating, as he loves to spend time in the gym. All right, next, two tablespoons of Dijon mustard. And I don't have Dijon. And I don't care. Night. Brown mustard. Just use a spicy mustard. Anything's fine. Whoa. Wow. I was excited to come out of there. Look at it. I shook it up earlier, man. Seriously, it's all over the counter. I can show you guys.

It squirted out everywhere. Yikes. All right, let's see if I can get some of that in here. Little of the mustard counters. Very clean. So I'm gonna see what if I can save some of these. Wow. Mustard cleanup, counter one. All right, we got some mustard in here. Hold on a minute. I have an organizer. I clean as I go. I can't do it, man. I couldn't do it. I had to go get a towel. All right, now we got it cleaned up. Okay, so next is teaspoon of salt. I love these little magnetic guys, and they're color coded too, so I'm a very visual guy.

So over time, I learned which color is which. And I don't have to, like, rifle around and look because I remember the color. They're pretty cool. Alright, so now we need the teaspoon. We're doing salt, and then a teaspoon of onion powder. All right, a teaspoon. This is two teaspoons of each of these. Two teaspoons of garlic powder. One, two. Two teaspoons of oregano. So you can see it a little better. And, you know, you don't need to be exact, just, you know, generally you're having fun here. Two teaspoons of pepper.

Okay, then the olive oil. Now get whatever. Olive oil, extra virgin olive oil, the best you can find and usually costs kind of dictates quality. So just look at what you're getting. Make sure it's extra virgin olive oil when you're using it. Kosher has salad dressing, mixing bottles on Amazon. Oh, Calder. Oh, cool. I didn't know that. Colder. Okay, that's good. Junk food junkie. Thank you for that. Jack, are you here? Jack just walked in. Okay, stay focused. All right. Three quarter cup of extra virgin olive oil.

Three quarter, three water. Olive oil. Smells good. Now, I know that seems like a lot of oil, but you're just using a little bit in here. Salad, and you've got a lot of other seasonings mixed in, so. And if you want to lighten it up a little bit, like, decrease the oil and replace it with water, and you can lighten it up a little bit. The Sousa, you would guess you have arrived. Junk food junkie is one of our most favorite fans, biggest fans and users on the app here. Junk food junkie and we love seeing him in all of our comments.

Community forum. All right, so you mix it up and there you have it. It is so delicious. I'm gonna take a little dribble now. Oh, my gosh. It tastes just like, just like they brought a big, huge greek salad dressing to the table. Wow, that's good. That's really good. All right, so, I don't know, 24,000, 23,000 had watched that video. A bunch of people forwarded it and stuff. So I figured, again, if they, if they loved it and it was that popular, I definitely wanted to share it with you guys. Don't forget to check out the cube.

If it's something you think you could use it. Save you a little space. Another thing, too is, you know, people get kind of rattled when they cook. If they're not comfortable in the kitchen, it's less stuff you have to look for. Right? Your measuring spoons. Now these I love because they're magnetic, but a lot of times the spoons will get separated. You have to dig around for anything. If you're one of those people that wants a little bit more relaxation and less time searching around for things, something like this might be useful to you.

Alright, so we talked about dressing a salad. Let's talk about dressing ourselves, right? It's something we all have to do because we get in trouble if we go out without clothes. So this time of year is one of those transition times. And we are at least up here in the north, transitioning from very, very cold weather into, you know, warmer spring summer weather. And especially here on the lake, we, you know, we have a lot of fun in the water, so we use a lot of swimsuits and all sorts of summer activity stuff.

So this is the time of year where you want to transition from your winter clothing, your sweatshirts and the heavier things to your summer clothing. And I encourage you to go through your clothing. And this is a system I love to use for organization when it comes to clothing or actually any other group of things in the home is attack it all at once. So have you ever taken every single piece of clothing, every piece in your home out of the dressers, out of the closets, out of the dresser drawers, everywhere?

Right. The coat closets, everything. Grab everything. Laundry, too. Get it out and put it all in a pile and go through it and decide what you want to keep and what you want to give away. Here are some great rules. If you haven't worn it in a year, get rid of it. Also, keep in mind that other people need your clothing, it's a need for people. There are to organizations, many of them, that will take your clothing and donate it to shelters, people in need. So hoarding clothing is something that so many of us do.

And if you focus on, while you're going through this process, if you focus on the other people in the universe that need what you are hoarding, it's a much easier process when you want to let go of things. Think about people that need things more than you. If you're hoarding clothing, if you have tons of clothes in your house, you don't have space for it in your dresser or your closet. You know, really pause and think, do you need all this stuff? And how about the people that do need it? All right, so enough of that.

You're going to go through your clothing all at once. And it's a great way to minimize. Once you have keep out the warmer spring summer clothes. Wait till fall and you'll get out your winter ones. But find a space in your house for the winter clothing. There are vacuum bags. You can put a bunch of things in a bag and the vacuum will suck the air out. Look at different options for storing the clothing that you do have. It doesn't have to be a dresser or closet. Maybe you have a bigger wicker basket, you know, that you could put in a corner that you could keep winter clothes in.

So kind of get creative about where you can, can get those things stored and out of your way so you don't have to rifle through winter clothes to get to the ones that are appropriate for the season. It's something everybody's done for years and, well, not everybody, but a lot of people have done this for years and years, switching out your clothes. So this is the time of year to do it. If you haven't done it before, I encourage you to do it. And also on this, if you want to save time in the morning or whenever you're getting ready, we all have different, different clocks that we go by.

If you want to save time, whenever you're getting ready to leave the house, look at the day that you're going to have the day before. The day before. Look at the next day. We do this every night in our house. All right, what do you got tomorrow? Even though it's on the calendar, even though we've talked about it already, we ask each other, what do you got tomorrow? So it's in our head. Ask yourself, what do I have tomorrow? What's the weather like? What time do I have to be out of here? What do I need to wear.

What do I need to bring with me? Get prepared the night before and you can start your day much more relaxed, much more organized and be at the top of your game because you're not going to be rushing out the door and frantic when you arrive. Wherever you need to be, pick out your clothes, check the weather. And here's another thing that I recommend. Put a basket, a bed, your backpack, your briefcase, whatever by the door. And throughout the day, chuck what you need in that bag. Hang a bag from the doorknob.

The most important thing is to keep it by the door. You're going to use to enter and exit your home and use that throughout the day to collect things that you're going to need. You got to take books back to the library if you're still reading hardcover books. I love hardcover books. Or, you know, physical books. Anyway, another tangent, my brain. All right, so those are some things you can do to help get ready for the week ahead. Season ahead coming up. And don't forget this dressing and I will be sharing a bunch more.

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